Ross MacDonald
Ross MacDonald
David Ross MacDonaldis a Canadian sailor. He began sailing at the age of 11...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth13 December 1915
CityLos Gatos, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure
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Property transactions were down in the Highlands, but they were also down across the state.
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Losing Hidden Valley would be not a good thing. No question he's in a difficult position, certainly. We have an opportunity to address that situation through the regional master plan.
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My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.
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I had reached the point when I could not see anything clearly ahead, I needed help, and I got it.
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How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?
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As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played.
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I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.
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As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.
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An ugly woman with an ugly gun is a terrible thing.
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We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get unhooked before we drown in the stuff.
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As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.
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I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it our ourselves.
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I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my life in my hands and know damn well I’m not going to lose it.